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excerpt: "Recently, I was handed a few CP/M disks which had been converted for use by one of the QL’s CP/M emulators. The filenames on the disk were all preceded by a '8'/'CHR$ (127).' Not all CP/Mulators, and few printers (or, individuals), can comprehend this character. The request which accompanied the public domain disks was to…"
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# Vegemat 1.04: Slicing and Dicing CP/M Filenames

Recently, I was handed a few CP/M disks which had been converted for use by one of the QL’s CP/M emulators. The filenames on the disk were all preceded by a ‘8’/’CHR$ (127).’ Not all CP/Mulators, and few printers (or, individuals), can comprehend this character. The request which accompanied the public domain disks was to write а program which could strip the first character from the filenames.